The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-17
ROBERT BONNER'S G0OD-BY.
TIE NEW FORK LEDGER TRANsrERRED
n 10 MS THREE S0NE

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Tho New York Ledger OF Dec. 10 will con-
tain the following notice.
-, This week ]. retire from the MANAGEMENT Of
my riEht. tile, and interest IN the LEDGER. tho
Ledger building, and everything connected
er eopdSSt e he busness andp Tie firm
name OF Robert Bohners Sons, They have an
ABUNDANCE Of capital. and. with youth and en-.
not only n continued success Of the business,
but TO Increase and extend It.. While they will
@ from sna s o Seq haSo
advice and counsel as may be able to give
Il IL just forty.eight years this month since
prentice to the printing business. From that
worker. especially during the early history. Of
tho Ledger. oftentimss renaining st the ONCE
thnl Se 10 in my Sth
been connected with the paper for the past ton
years, and who are In every way capable OF
e To' thom u intrust its man aasment in full
hs uS @afe a q ses snt T
RoBERT BONNER.
. Tho Ledger and its owner. Mr.. Bonner. have
bcen familiar to the people Of this country for
thirty-hve years. In every country village.
manufacturing town. and inland city. the
rs they arc here in New York. Country boys
who have Grown up and come to the city can
recall the rush on tho days on which the
Ledger was expected at tho Post ONCE. Coun-
try lasses, who long since became matrons
and now have their brRht-eyed daughters
around their own fresides. remember how
they associated each her favored lover with
the ardent and high principled hero who
visited them every week IN the Ledoer; The
wives and children, great mil and factory own
have men ne pe EN-
graph had frst passed under the critical and
iatierly oyc of MIR, bonner. The absorbing in
and eritlcems provoked. by its essays. bio
graphical sketches and editorial reading, made
It part OF tho early education OF tens Of thou
MI Bonner sat in the library. Of his home, 8
West Fifty-sixth street. last night. and smoke
30 cams to New YORK from MT his fathers hers Some
and * 5 FSs was IN
1880 He drifted mp the Connecticut Rivcr and
found restinE place IN the office of the Hart
fbe Cen,'nnt until 1914, and thon returned to
1nseen RepabSa S Which heped elect 1 JAMES es
Harner Mayor Mr.. Bonner later on became
and Proof render On tho
ana Nathaniel Parker Far Wills. N'o,N' . ',0''''
and wsss an S S Mss
s$ isS .;S ,is psn,ss .ss.
sssaI N"%sts Isgs,. e Was t the nars sr
merchants Of the city and country. and its chief
glories consisted in, nrst-class and accurate
market rsports and an authoritatiye list Of
ponner MADE things hum. and in 1861 he
ths name Of The paper to the Nen Yoyk Ieser
and started In to make. II first-elass family
af ssp. adj sps t5 bSs #
troduesd Intel bookstores, and thence into the
d9Gm1 s CIRCLE:
Cioyed Fanny Fern to write story Of domestic
eto with the Incidental love episodes attached.
snS sister 81 Wills xs q Bonnes p nH5 her,
si S.o COLUMN for >. Fanny Ford" novelette,
cost M BonnsF TSs Is ssa Sss
on soTsa Mss dfootps Hnd MT
Thomas Dunn English. Mrs. southWor tn and
oq All 5s e hef as
ing his paper through the advertising columns
o. me :. n1eWspapers; and IN 1858 he ATTRACTED
the time was delivering his famous Grafton on
the Sa e ssh 0s %ns ssse TO
perpetual attention to the place where the first
5bresident OF the nation was buried. On Sept.
q, 1908. MI Bonner wrote to Mr.. Everett:
& pnssSs.s y lie soan, e vsrsos
ES ali other men: 70 Your eoanens ap ps
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fths public has naturally warmed toward you on ac
ss 81 Sal u5sssS a%
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fss Z hrs wfft Ward Bseeher
llree lions OF the New York DresSONmeS |
Gordon Bennett. the elder; Horace Greeley, |
and Henry ]. Raymond-wero also invited to !
contribute to the Ledger. and MIR. Bonner re- |
called with what amusement the poem OF ames |
Gordon Bennett was received. Mr.. Greeley |
wrote Advice to Young Men" and NJ, Ray.
Sessipn came William Cullen Bryant with
translation OF long. Spanish tale and an oc-
kasional poem Harriet Beecher Stowe with |
a1teen sketches, and then followed two series |
H,articles by twelve Presidents of American
.3leges and twelve United States Senators.
about this time James Parton became con-
hected with the Ledger and he Is still there
Writing biographical sketches on the great men
81 this day and other days The war rather
aiirt the circulation of the Ledger, but renewed
prosperity came with peace:
In 1867 Mr. bonner paid Henry Ward Beecher
81, 400 for Norwood" and sent o check for
5000 to Charles Dickens for the only story Mr.
Dickens over wrote for publication in America.
This story ran through three numbers Of the
Ledger. AR. Bonner Continued to heap up the
Elories OF his paper. Tennysen WAS paid $4,000
OR q. poem. and Lonsfelow. $1,000 for another,
md N. r. Willis, George P; Morris, and John q.
SAKE were added to the Ledqer's galaxy. The
,opics week, and 1t was the pet Of town and
ountry. Later writer's for the Ledger have
seen Bishop Clark Of Rhode Island, Dr. John
Hall. and Mary Kyle Dallas. Their names have
Secome familiar In thousands OF households.
Mr.. Bonner attributed his great success |